Wallace's "Stand"

 In 1963 on this date, Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door:

 

 

Fort Novosel NO MORE

 Of COURSE he will...

 

"President Donald Trump announced he will reverse the Biden administration decision changing the name of the Alabama military base from Fort Novosel to Fort Rucker."

source: HERE. 

IRONY x 10,000

 The Draft Dodger suddenly likes the military?

Police Break Up Scattered Protests in L.A.

Marines were heading to Los Angeles after scattered demonstrations downtown late Monday. The California governor said sending in the Marines was “a blatant abuse of power.”

 

200th Anniversary of 1st Hanging-Execution of a Woman in Alabama---an Enslaved Woman.

Patsy, a slave owned by Gorman, was the first female hanged on June 10, 1825 for murder committed in Perry County....the murder of a boy named Prior who's throat was cut.

 

Gorman was awarded $132.50 of Patsy's "valuation" of $265 to compensate him for the loss of Patsy via execution.

Slave executions before the Civil War, included a trio executed on January 19, 1860 for  a "slave revolt" in Talledega. Ceasar, Sam and Sanford were executed/hanged on 1-9-1860..in all, some 184 enslaved people were hanged in Alabama between 1812 and 1860.

 

A white soldier named John Woods was shot to death on 2-6-1814 after he was convicted of a crime listed only as "other".

https://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa1/state/alabama.htm

 

There are FIVE women on Alabama' Death Row (as of 6-07-25) 

 

An earlier version of this posting includes some added information:

  The first woman executed in Alabama was an enslaved woman:

"Patsy, a slave owned by Gorman, was the first female in Alabama hanged on June 10, 1825 for murder committed in Perry County."

     Virtually all of the women executed in early Alabama history were enslaved.

Patsy, who cut the throat of a Negro boy named Prior in Perry County in April 1825, got the maximum sentence. She was tried—and found guilty. Her value was assessed at $265 and she was sentenced to be hanged. Half her "value" ($132.50) was paid to her owner Elijah Gorman upon her death.

[Source: https://www.afrigeneas.com/forumd/index.cgi/md/read/id/20033/sbj/crimes-punishments-of-slaves/]

Original source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Slave_Against_Slave/R_UACwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Elijiah+Gorman,++Perry+county,+alabama&pg=PA131&printsec=frontcover

Elijah Gorman:

https://www.geni.com/people/Elijah-Gorman/6000000097667390835

Return To The '60's?

 Trump's use of National Guard Troops against protestors in California is reviving memories of Alabama Troopers in Selma Alabama:

 

News reports compare what's happening out West to what happened all those decades ago here, saying it is...

"The first time since March 1965, two months after the Bloody Sunday encounter at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where Alabama state troopers beat protesters attempting to march to the state capital in Montgomery to fight for voting rights." 

Trump on Biden.

 Trump: "We’re not going to let our country be torn apart like it was under Biden."

 

Huh?

(Source: HERE) 

Hitchcock

 

 "There was always time in our work sessions for stories and anecdotes. One minute the script, the next a story about Ivor Novello’s tailor or the Tahiti steamer schedule in the Thirties. Sometimes the talk was without apparent purpose, but at other times some shred of casual chatter would turn out useful to our work. He was obsessed with detail and had a slow, meandering style.

Hitchcock had the historical good fortune to have worked from silent films through television. At his best, he was an inventor of part of the modem cinema’s grammar. But unlike any other director, he was an identifiable public figure, as recognizable as any president or movie star. Television did that for him—but long before his television show he was popping up in all his own movies, those tiny cameo appearances that audiences loved. He exploited a physique that most would try desperately to diminish. He wasn’t crazy about being fat, but he saw his body as a tool to use in the making of his career. He always claimed that “in England everyone looks as I do, and no one would remark on it.” Maybe—but he exploited his profile as effectively as any pinup".--From David Freeman's "The Last Days of Alfred Hitchcock," in Esquire, April 1982.

My First TV job

      Here I am in our rather primitive TV studio in Quang Tri, Vietnam, anchoring an evening newscast, an event that was monitored by the North Vietnamese officials. I was 20 at the time.

Some children in Vietnam. I wonder how and if they were able to grow up during the war.

Rattlesnakes

 “Nobody is apathetic about rattlesnakes,” said Jimmy Stiles, a biologist and snake expert with Auburn University. “They’re charismatic creatures.”

Really? Why don't you adopt a family of them to live with you, Dr. Stiles? Think of all the charisma and your family can absorb!!! 

 

The Alabama Senate Punch: 18th Anniversary

 In 2007 on this date.....one Alabama Senator punches another.

(See story HERE.) 

STORY HERE.

 

The Family Friendly HOOters

 Another part of Hooters’ rebound strategy: rebranding its image to become more “family friendly," including getting rid of its famous “bikini days,” reports the Montgomery Advertiser.

 And where will all of the unemployed owls get jobs???

The Pot Calling The Kettle???????

 "Trump directs DOJ, White House counsel to investigate Biden’s mental state in office"

Biden said an investigation would be "nothing more than a mere distraction.

 

I SAY: There's a better target for that investigation. tRump himself!

And the DOJ could do it without leaving the office!
 

*^$$@#!!!!

 

"Congratulations, United States. The nation may lag behind in healthcare, education, and life expectancy, but Americans still reign supreme in at least one way—swearing like a bunch of drunken sailors.

Linguists in Australia recently analyzed the Global Web-Based English Corpus (GloWbE), a massive database containing over 1.9 billion words from 1.8 million web pages across 340,000 websites in 20 English-speaking countries. In doing so, they hoped to better understand how people employ naughty words in their written communications. The team focused in particular on a selection of 597 vulgarities, including misspellings and variants on the same concept or phrase. According to the authors, the project marked the first large-scale analysis of its kind.

“Rather than being a simple, easily definable phenomenon, vulgarity proves to be a complex and multifaceted linguistic phenomenon,” Schweinberger and Monash University co-author Kate Burridge wrote in the journal Lingua.

“… As [Charles] Darwin observed, humans have a deep-seated craving for novelty and expressiveness, and they are constantly reimagining and adapting the aesthetics of their expressions,” they added. “Vulgar language is the natural playground for unleashing this linguistic creativity.”

Schweinberger and Burridge get into the linguistic weeds for their study, but broadly speaking, their results speak for themselves: the US sets the bar for dirtiest mouths.

“Some may find it disappointing, but the research found the United States and Great Britain ranked ahead of Australia in terms of using vulgar language online,” Schweinberger said in an accompanying statement. 

Not far behind Australia was Singapore followed by New Zealand, Malaysia, and Ireland. While the study focused mainly on each nation’s overall dirty word tallies, Schweinberger offered a potential theory on why the stereotypically foul-mouthed Aussies ranked surprisingly low.

“One possible explanation is that Australians are more conservative when they write online but not so much when they are face-to-face,” he said. “Australians really see vulgarity, swearing and slang as part of our culture—we’re very invested in it.”

The results go beyond bragging rights—they speak to how language is developed, adopted, and evolved by both native and adopted English speakers.

“Being able to understand when it’s appropriate to use humor, informal expressions, or even mild vulgarity can make a big difference in feeling included, building relationships, and navigating everyday life in a new culture,” said Schweinberger. “It’s not just about speaking correctly—it’s about speaking appropriately.”

Damn right."

SOURCE: HERE. 

Time for tRump mental exam?

 

Donald Trump promotes wild conspiracy theory Joe Biden was executed and cloned

Maybe it is time to invoke the 25th Amendment? 

 

Americans trust PBS because it’s publicly funded, not in spite of it

“President Trump says he is ‘restoring trust in government funded institutions.’ Our findings demonstrate that such trust already exists, in spades, towards PBS.”

By Christopher Ali, Hilde Van den Bulck and Jonathan Kropko June 4, 2025, 2:19 p.m.

On May 2, President Trump signed an executive order ordering CPB to halt all funding to PBS and NPR local stations. The justifications for this unprecedented action included the vast array of content available on multiple digital platforms and accusations of bias within public broadcasting’s newsgathering efforts and reportage.

Trump stated that CPB has violated its mandate of not endorsing “any political party.” Regarding PBS and NPR, he declared: “Neither entity presents a fair, accurate, or unbiased portrayal of current events to taxpaying citizens.” The executive order claims to be politically neutral, stating that “which viewpoints NPR and PBS promote does not matter,” but a corresponding article from the White House chastised both public broadcasters for “spread[ing] radical, woke propaganda disguised as ‘news.'”

The executive order has been heavily disputed. PBS CEO Paula Kerger called it “blatantly unlawful.” CPB stated that its mandate comes from and, therefore, can only be terminated by Congress. Yet the President has found many in the Republican Party to support his viewpoints. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene held a hearing on March 26 entitled “Anti-American Airwaves.” This hearing followed in the footsteps of a longer history of Republican criticism of U.S. public media’s alleged left-leaning bias and “woke” agenda — the latter often illustrated through reference to children’s programming like Sesame Street.

Contrary to these ideologically inspired beliefs, our empirical research — recently published in the Journal of Communication, the flagship journal of the communication studies discipline — finds that Americans from across the political spectrum don’t subscribe to the notion of a biased PBS. We found that those who watch PBS trust it immensely, for several complementary reasons.

In our article, “An Island of Trust: Public Broadcasting in the United States,” we report the findings of a nationally representative survey (n=1,500) of PBS audiences. The original study was funded by a Knight News Innovation Fellowship at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University for two of our authors. Our aim was to verify and nuance PBS’s own surveys that claim it has been the most trusted public institution in America over the last two decades. Do Americans who watch PBS really trust it more than any other public institution? And if so, what aspects of PBS, its audience, and wider media context explain this unique position and level of trust?

We found that those who watch PBS trust it along three different axes. First, viewers say PBS is an excellent value for public dollars. Overall, 47.4% of our respondents said that PBS’ value for public dollars was “excellent.” What’s more, survey respondents told us that they trust it precisely because it’s publicly funded. 41.9% said that they considered PBS’ funding structure a reason to put significant trust into PBS.

 From The Washington POST:

"In recent weeks, Trump has also attempted to block congressionally approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, though its affiliated news organizations draw significant funding from private donations.

NPR sued to halt that executive order, calling it “textbook retaliation” by the Trump administration over journalistic coverage it finds unfavorable."

full STORY IS HERE. 

 

Reading TO the kids

 From an excellent story in The Guardian (Full story is HERE)

Screen time has increasingly replaced story time, and experts warn this could lead to children falling behind

Alaina Demopoulos

Mon 2 Jun 2025 07.00 EDT

Last week, former elementary school teacher Spencer Russell posed a question to parents who follow his Instagram account, Toddlers Can Read: “Why aren’t you reading aloud to your kids?”

The responses, which Russell shared with the Guardian, ranged from embarrassed to annoyed to angry. “It’s so boring,” said one parent. “I don’t have time,” said another. One mother wrote in: “I don’t enjoy reading myself.”

Others reported difficulty getting their children to sit still long enough for a full dose of Goodnight Moon or Mother Goose: “He’s always interrupting,” or “my son just wants to skip all the pages.” They noted the monotony of story time, with one saying: “I love reading with my kids, but they request the same book over and over.”

 

5

 A Five Deferment Draft Dodger.

 i.e. A COWARD.

 

 

Advertiser changes.

 "Starting July 7, the U.S. Postal Service will begin delivering the Montgomery Advertiser print edition, part of a continued push to optimize resources as digital readership demand increases."  (Source: Advertiser story HERE.) 

Too bad there are no reporters there to ask questions...like how many Advertiser employees will be out of  a job as a result of this change?

 

New AG Candidate

 “No boys in girls’ sports. No DEI. No more woke nonsense.”

Jay Mitchell says he is a conservative who would support President Donald Trump’s policies in Alabama. 

Phones!

 An increasing number of schools worldwide are banning cell phones. Since the beginning of 2025, a new law in Brazil prohibits pupils from using smartphones during breaks or in class.

Is it working? See the story HERE. 

 

Best Supermarkets in The U.S.?

 

				See rankings HERE.

ANOTHER confederate holiday

  Today is one of several days the State of Alabama "celebrates" The Confederacy. Most state offices are closed today for Jefferson Davis' birthday.

It is one of three holidays in Alabama that commemorates Confederate leaders: Robert E. Lee’s birthday, which is commemorated in January on the same day as Martin Luther King Day; and Confederate Memorial Day in April. 

The Davis statue shown here is in front of the Alabama Capitol building. 

Dolphin Chat

 

We’re About To Talk To Dolphins… But Are We Ready To Hear The Truth?

"Inspired by Google Translate, a new AI may soon let us talk to dolphins. But once they understand us — what will they say?"

WOW? Can anyone predict the first comments from (or to) them? 

 SOURCE: HERE

Military/Tuskegee

 "...the (tRump) administration and its ideological allies are erasing the accomplishments of Black service members from the nation’s military narrative. Units such as the 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters; the Tuskegee Airmen; the Montford Point Marines; and the Buffalo Soldiers are no longer central to the story the military tells about itself. The Pentagon has erased countless photos, videos and articles about these units from its websites — although quickly restoring some, such as the Tuskegee Airmen, in response to an outcry."

(Source: The Washington Post HERE.)